Preceded in one office by Friedrich Ebert, he had been retired for four years before Moltke the Youn
Preceded in one office by Friedrich Ebert, he had been retired for four years before Moltke the Younger recalled him. In command of the Eighth Army he won at Masurian Lakes, and earlier at Tannenberg with Erich Ludendorff. Elected President of Germany in 1925, he appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, and a craft named for him was intended to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. For 10 points, identify the namesake of a zeppelin that crashed and burned in 1937.
Preceded in one office by Friedrich Ebert, he had been retired for four years before Moltke the Younger recalled him.
Paul von {Hindenburg}